November 12, 2008
It is an interesting way to do the travel journal, especially when the internet is being worked on and I have no access. If I compose on a word document, I will have it copied and pasted to the blog site later, I hope.
We are in Henderson, near Las Vegas, with the Motosat man and he is trying to put in a new router for our computer satellite. Updating our system has made various problems with the installed systems and we want it straight before entering Mexico (and also to be on a Mexico available satellite –satmex 5 – which we were not). We are in Sam’s Town RV park and have til noon checkout. Ashley Teasley of Satellite World, Inc. is performing his miracles with the satellite dish. I am glad that I tried to print something while he is here because the printer was connected through the old router!
Yesterday a.m. we drove from our overnight campsite again at Zion near Kate, getting her for a good long visit the night before and dinner at Ted and Allen’s sports bar. At Henderson, we stayed in a Wal-mart parking lot on Marks Street until the Satellite people could tell us what we needed to do and did some Wal-mart shopping and had a great visit with Rick Williamson. Rick just met us in our bus and gave us an hour or so of his valuable time and we loved our visit all about the new bridge they are building at the Hoover dam site and about his job . No overnight parking is allowed in any parking lots in Clark county- because of messes left, so they say, but I think it may have something to do with lost revenue to the casinos when you do not stay in the casino lots. The satellite people came and made a date with us for this morning at Sam’s Town casino RV park. While they are working, I have packaged the new old router to send back to Dan for credit and boxed the Casio camera to ship to repair. Casio requires that in order to cover the camera with warranty we need to have a notarized letter, especially since we don’t have any receipts to copy to send them. Thanks to United Parcel mailbox stores. They have notarys!
We were awarded an extra hour for check out and left the RV place about 1pm with our tummys full of prime rib leftovers, our satellite fixed, and our parcels mailed with tracer numbers…..but, I didn’t tell you the best part. Getting towards twilight we took a romantic adventure last evening. It was about 20 miles to Hoover Dam and we really wanted to see the new bridge. Rick had said that it was one of those colossal achievements that will be part of history and the huge heavy bridge parts were sticking out over the Dam canyon with only cables and concrete holding them in the air (waiting for the connecting sections to be built) and with tiny looking ant sized heavy equipment working below it, way far away from yourself (we were at the top of the dam). He was right and it was even more dramatic in the sunset hours. Pedestrians are not allowed to walk out on the dam after dark and we were two of the last people to go over and back. I told Andy that it was sooooo romantic. Besides that, we found Lake Las Vegas on the way back. It was a place I did not think I would ever see again and brought back old memories of a Mother’s day spent there with the Drake family and Nate and Patti, the first time that I met Graydon Meeks. We walked through the shops with all of the trees dressed in white lights and it too was the most romantic. Andy was fascinated with the little city, the gondolas, and the shops (mostly closed). It was a favorite time with Andy.
It is an interesting way to do the travel journal, especially when the internet is being worked on and I have no access. If I compose on a word document, I will have it copied and pasted to the blog site later, I hope.
We are in Henderson, near Las Vegas, with the Motosat man and he is trying to put in a new router for our computer satellite. Updating our system has made various problems with the installed systems and we want it straight before entering Mexico (and also to be on a Mexico available satellite –satmex 5 – which we were not). We are in Sam’s Town RV park and have til noon checkout. Ashley Teasley of Satellite World, Inc. is performing his miracles with the satellite dish. I am glad that I tried to print something while he is here because the printer was connected through the old router!
Yesterday a.m. we drove from our overnight campsite again at Zion near Kate, getting her for a good long visit the night before and dinner at Ted and Allen’s sports bar. At Henderson, we stayed in a Wal-mart parking lot on Marks Street until the Satellite people could tell us what we needed to do and did some Wal-mart shopping and had a great visit with Rick Williamson. Rick just met us in our bus and gave us an hour or so of his valuable time and we loved our visit all about the new bridge they are building at the Hoover dam site and about his job . No overnight parking is allowed in any parking lots in Clark county- because of messes left, so they say, but I think it may have something to do with lost revenue to the casinos when you do not stay in the casino lots. The satellite people came and made a date with us for this morning at Sam’s Town casino RV park. While they are working, I have packaged the new old router to send back to Dan for credit and boxed the Casio camera to ship to repair. Casio requires that in order to cover the camera with warranty we need to have a notarized letter, especially since we don’t have any receipts to copy to send them. Thanks to United Parcel mailbox stores. They have notarys!
We were awarded an extra hour for check out and left the RV place about 1pm with our tummys full of prime rib leftovers, our satellite fixed, and our parcels mailed with tracer numbers…..but, I didn’t tell you the best part. Getting towards twilight we took a romantic adventure last evening. It was about 20 miles to Hoover Dam and we really wanted to see the new bridge. Rick had said that it was one of those colossal achievements that will be part of history and the huge heavy bridge parts were sticking out over the Dam canyon with only cables and concrete holding them in the air (waiting for the connecting sections to be built) and with tiny looking ant sized heavy equipment working below it, way far away from yourself (we were at the top of the dam). He was right and it was even more dramatic in the sunset hours. Pedestrians are not allowed to walk out on the dam after dark and we were two of the last people to go over and back. I told Andy that it was sooooo romantic. Besides that, we found Lake Las Vegas on the way back. It was a place I did not think I would ever see again and brought back old memories of a Mother’s day spent there with the Drake family and Nate and Patti, the first time that I met Graydon Meeks. We walked through the shops with all of the trees dressed in white lights and it too was the most romantic. Andy was fascinated with the little city, the gondolas, and the shops (mostly closed). It was a favorite time with Andy.
1 comment:
I am so glad you have your blog up - i love reading it when i have the time :)
xoxoxo we miss you already.
Kate
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